Re: What should I call the source package?
Philipp Kern wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 23:24 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
After compiling it, I will get two libraries (runtime and development
libraries). I named these packages as libfortranposix0,
libfortranposix0-dev according to their soname.
It's libfortranposix0 for the runtime library and libfortranposix-dev
for the development package. (If you read by chance debian-devel you
should ignore the discussion about naming there for now.)
Actually,
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#id4748160
recommends to include soname in the -dev package name which is why I
created the package with libfortranposix0-dev instead of
libfortranposix-dev .
But I am not sure what the name of the source package should be?
Should it be fortranposix or libfortranposix or libfortranposix0?
What's the name of the tarball provided by upstream? You should use
that. Both fortranposix and libfortranposix is perfectly acceptable,
depending on how the source is usually called.
It is called fortranposix. So I will call the source package fortranposix.
Also can you please tell against which package name I should file the
ITP? ie against the name of the source or against the name of the binary
package?
You should file it with the name of the source package. Not that it
matters much, though. But filing it with the current SONAME would not
make much sense.
I will file it against fortranposix then. Thanks a lot of for your reply.
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
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